Donald Beal is active/lives in Massachusetts. Donald Beal is known for figure and nature theme painting, teaching.
Biography Donald Beal
Following is a review by Maureen Mullarkey, published January 1, 2003, in www.artcritical, an online magazine of art and ideas.
Robert Beal's instinct for color is deeply appealing. And instinct it
is. Color sense cannot be forced. It has to come of itself, rather as
memories do, by natural association and unbidden, long after striving
for it has ceased.
For the majority of contemporary painters, color precedes form. It is
from color that forms are made. Painters committed to maintaining
identifiable reference, however loose, to the world as it appears, must
grant color a structural role. The finest of Beal's work here maintains
a subtle, lyrical balan
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